The continent's visa regime is not a footnote to its economic ambitions - it is a direct contradiction of them.
By Mark-Anthony Johnson The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was supposed to revolutionize African commerce. Five years after trading officially commenced, the world’s largest free...
By Michele Moscaritoli The most consequential shift in African commerce isn’t happening across oceans. It’s happening across borders. For decades, the narrative around African trade focused...
By Ziad Hamoui Ghana’s president is right to call current trade arrangements neo-colonial. But diagnosis without execution changes nothing. Ghana produces the cocoa. Switzerland pockets US$130...
By Danilo Desiderio The proposition that Africa’s single market will collapse without a supranational court is simultaneously persuasive and fundamentally flawed. Persuasive, because it accurately diagnoses...
By Ziad Hamoui When a Nigerian general recently floated the idea of fencing the country’s borders to combat terrorism, the response was swift and unforgiving. Colleagues...
By Danilo Desiderio Fifteen years after the East African Community (EAC) launched its Common Market Protocol – designed to enable the free movement of people, goods,...
By Danilo Desiderio The continent’s ambitious free trade agreement promises to reshape economic integration – but a tangled web of customs unions and political fractures threatens...
By Gregory September In two decades, China constructed more than 50,000 kilometers (31,069 miles) of high-speed rail – a network that now dwarfs the combined systems...
By Kelly Mua Kingsly Africa proclaims the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as the world’s largest free-trade zone, spanning 1.4 billion people across 54 countries...
By Dishant Shah Africa’s greatest obstacle was never its colonial-era borders. It was the enduring belief in their permanence – the idea that African economies must...
By Godfred Zina Every year, Africa hemorrhages approximately US$5 billion – not to corruption or illicit financial flows, but to a quieter, systemic flaw: the continent’s...
By Danilo Desiderio As global trade grows increasingly fragmented, Africa stands at a crossroads. According to UNCTAD, average tariffs imposed by major economies – including the...
By Dishant Shah As the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) moves from vision to reality, a pivotal question echoes across boardrooms, policy think tanks, and...
By Ziad Hamoui In a landmark move for regional integration, the African Union Commission (AUC), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, and the...
By Dishant Shah Trade blocs often sound like the ultimate solution to regional prosperity. On paper, they promise unified markets, stronger negotiating power, streamlined supply chains,...
By Danilo Desiderio As the East African Community (EAC) assumes the rotating chairmanship of the Tripartite Task Force, it has sounded a clarion call for a...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Since rejoining the African Union in 2017, Morocco has steadily expanded its influence across the continent, with a particular focus on West...
By Danilo Desiderio A recent publication from AfCFTA Dialogues, a platform dedicated to raising awareness and fostering a deeper understanding of the African Continental Free Trade...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu During the last United Nations General Assembly session, the Guinean leader emphasized that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) should...
Curaçao received a warm welcome into the Caribbean community (CARICOM) as it was officially admitted as the sixth Associate Member of regional organization. CARICOM Secretary-General Carla...
(BGIS) – Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, has sent a clear message that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Single Market and Economy (CSME) is still a “front...
